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This device looks great! The software looks like it could use some work, though. Does anyone know if the data is exportable?

• shawnwall 15y ago
  From what I have seen thus far there is no export capability for the data. There's an outstanding question on the jawbone forums with no response http://forums.jawbone.com/t5/Product-Support/Can-we-export-our-data/td-p/16766 http://forums.jawbone.com/t5/Product-Support/Can-we-export-o...
• dreeves 15y ago
  I'm also eager to learn the answer to this, or what kind of options there are to access the data programmatically. (The answer is relevant to my own startup, http://beeminder.com http://beeminder.com which is a goal-tracking and anti-akrasia service -- you pledge money to force yourself to keep your data points on a "yellow brick road" to your goal. It works especially well when you can automate the data collection with devices like this.)
  • joeconway 15y ago
    Do your users actually pay you $5 for every time they leave their 'yellow zone'? I'd be much more inclined to do this if it were a much smaller amount of money and donated to a charity of my choice instead
    • dreeves 15y ago
      They totally do! (Ok, our revenue is just a trickle -- http://beeminder.com/meta/paid http://beeminder.com/meta/paid -- but it seems like a steady trickle since launching so we're feeling very hopeful!) We've had a lot of discussions -- for example, http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_for_data_nerds/508q http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_... -- about the charity question. We do hope to offer that at some point but we're not considering it a core feature just yet. Here's something from our FAQ about this: Q: You make money from people failing at their goals? A: Yes, but we make you fail less! We force you to toe the line at least for a while so that when/if you do fall off your yellow brick road then the motivation it provided up until that point still seems worth it. Everything we've worked on in building Beeminder has been with the objective of making people succeed and we'd have to be very myopic for it to be otherwise. It's very important to us that no one ever lose on a technicality. We want to make money by making you more awesome, and we're convinced that's what's happening. But don't take our word for it. Try it and see. The first attempt is free: http://beeminder.com/money http://beeminder.com/money